From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Bernd Schubert <Bernd.Schubert@tc.pci.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 TB partition support
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:45:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d6bybeiw.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <QR40.39P.53@gated-at.bofh.it> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:30:37 +0100")
Bernd Schubert <Bernd.Schubert@tc.pci.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
> Are 2TB possible with an unpatched 2.4.x 64bit-AMD64 kernel? The
> partion is supposed to be reiserfs. I read an about 2 years old
> discussion about this and Hans Reiser statet that the maximum size is
> about 2GB. Unfortunality I don't know what this 'about' depends on.
> Furthermore our server for this will be an Opteron and so perhaps this
> limit is much higher on 64bit systems.
In theory yes, but note that nobody tested the drivers for 64bit cleanness
in block numbers. I would do careful testing first if your block driver supports
>2TB.
-Andi
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2003-11-12 0:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-11-12 19:37 ` 2 TB partition support Peter Chubb
2003-11-12 22:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-12 11:09 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-12 23:45 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-12 0:01 Xose Vazquez Perez
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2003-11-10 21:17 Joseph Shamash
2003-11-10 23:56 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 2:10 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-11 2:12 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:21 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-11 3:42 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 4:03 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 5:30 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-11 21:21 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 23:58 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-12 22:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-11 2:39 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 2:52 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:53 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-12 0:28 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-11-12 3:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-12 19:35 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-14 17:14 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-11-14 17:43 ` Mike Fedyk
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